an anecdote            
                                          
 today it rained,  and i would go outside 
 i  thought, so  i smoked a  pipe and got 
 dressed,   and  outside  the   rain  had 
 turned  into  snow so thick that it  was 
 as dense fog ... and then i  went to get 
 the mail, but there was  a woman and  we 
 talked a little.  now because i was high 
 and it was  snowing so funny  and i  had 
 an umbrella  against the snow,  but snow 
 all  over my face anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life